Clinical Nurse - Adult Community Mental Health

What your day could look like

As a Clinical Nurse - Adult Community Mental Health, you'll support people to improve wellbeing, strengthen recovery and stay connected. Working with consumers, families and colleagues, you'll help create lasting outcomes.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

• Providing person-centred assessment, care planning and therapeutic support that helps consumers achieve meaningful recovery goals.
• Coordinating care with health professionals, community services and support networks to deliver safe, connected and effective outcomes.
• Using your clinical expertise to guide complex decision-making, manage risk and promote high-quality mental health care.
• Supporting a culture of learning, quality improvement and professional growth within a collaborative team environment.

Let's talk about you!

You're a compassionate nurse who builds trust, supports recovery and makes a real difference. You bring courage to complex situations, integrity to every decision, and dignity and respect to every interaction. You'll help people through challenging times while contributing to a supportive community. You're not just looking for your next role, you're looking for an opportunity to create meaningful impact and grow your career in a team that values innovation, collaboration and care.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

• Current registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience delivering mental health care, including assessment, care coordination and recovery-focused practice.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with consumers, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• Sound clinical judgement, risk management capability and a commitment to safe, evidence-based care.

You'll stand out from the crowd if you have a postgraduate qualification in mental health nursing, mental health nursing credentials, and/or experience working in rural or community-based settings.

Relocation and accommodation support may be available for eligible candidates.

Above all, you'll bring Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation and Courage while helping improve mental health outcomes across the region.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless. 

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.  

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region. 

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements.
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety.
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways.
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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